It is hard to guess what a Sucre spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sucre spiny rat (Proechimys urichi) on average weights 284 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Sucre spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.9 cm (0′ 10″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Sucre spiny-rat (Proechimys urichi) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Sucre spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
- Speckled spiny tree-rat with a weight of 283 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 394 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a weight of 291 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Greedy olalla rat with a weight of 206 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sucre spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys urichi:
- Somali bushbaby bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing 255 grams to the scale